Characteristics
Indopol polybutenes have many useful properties. For instance, they are:
- Permanently non-drying
- Colorless (water white) and non-staining
- Soluble in a wide range of organic solvents
- Compatible with a wide range of organic materials
- Completely hydrophobic
- Tacky
- Emulsifiable
- Excellent electrical insulators
- Good lubricants
- Non-corrosive
- Practically non-toxic and non-phytotoxic
- Stable to light and air (i.e. oxidatively stable) under ambient conditions
- Reactive by virtue of their olefinic end-group
- Very low moisture transmission rates
- Low to negligible evaporation loss at ambient temperature
- High Viscosity Indices
- Low Pour Points
- Complete depolymerization at elevated temperature leaving no residues
Viscosity
- Indopol® polybutenes are available in a wide range of viscosities to meet the needs of many applications. If you are not sure which grade may be suitable for your application please e-mail our technical experts for advice at the address below.
- To convert from centistokes (cSt) to centipoise (cP), multiply the viscosity in cSt by the density at the temperature under consideration: cP = cSt x density (kg/L)T
- To convert accurately from cSt to Saybolt Universal Seconds (SUS) is less straight forward. For viscosities of 100cSt and above at 100°C the relationship is: SUS = cSt x 4.653
- A blending chart to enable estimation of the viscosity (in cSt) of a two component blend is available by contacting our technical experts.
- E-mail our technical experts for advice